2024 Guides
Meet the Presenters & Teachers
Niki Trosky
Niki Trosky delights in both mischief and repose. Her dance between limitless curiosity and absolute nothingness is where her multidimensional teachings take form. A pioneer on the leading edge of evolution, Niki harnesses the highest realms of love and consciousness to infuse the human experience with wonder and grace. She believes the body is a technology through which spirit gets to explore this atmosphere and loves to unlock infinite potential through invitation & intention.
Living her dream life in Careyes Mexico, Niki has created a unique signature of world class wellness experiences celebrated by the cognoscenti, celebrities, global influencers and the rockstars of the wellness world. She has been featured in several online and print magazines including Origin, The Lonely Planet & Vogue. She has also done a sound healing on an episode of The Real Housewives of Dallas. Hilarious right?!
Above all Niki loves to listen, conjure and co-create reality from a place of whimsical joy and passionate pleasure. She is aligned with her destiny to anchor a new Golden Age of Miracles here on planet earth and can’t imagine a better reason to be alive.
Jillian Schecher
My Joy was born from the shadows of addiction, codependency, and loss. In 2015, I got sober and came home to myself. Shortly after I discovered meditation, and everything clicked. I delved deeply into the law of attraction, coaching, and connecting with other healers and thought leaders. In 2017, I experienced the depths of SOUL JOY and the possibilities of experiencing joy and grief simultaneously, birthing The Joy Warrior. I found strength and softness and tapped into the multi-dimensionality of life. Today, as the author of The Daily Joy Journals and lead facilitator of The Joy Sessions, I empower others to feel better with The Joy Method and other practical tools. I teach loving leaders, teams, and communities how to build sustainable strategies with JOY and I'm thrilled to be with the women of RAW to ignite the next level of Joy Leadership and beyond!
Mandy Trapp
Mandy Trapp is a global meditation and mindfulness expert specializing in stress management and spiritual development. She is the founder of the Lifestyle Meditation Academy and has certified over 3,000 meditation and mindfulness teachers around the world. Her teachings are rooted in spiritual psychology, neuroscience, and energetic insights. She is the creator of The Practice™, a membership program with the focus on supporting the mental and spiritual health of others through interactive learning and powerful practices such as meditation and breathwork. Mandy is known for her grounded, practical, and accessible approach to meditation and spirituality which has allowed tens of thousands around the world to confidently move through the stresses and limitations of life and towards more peace and fulfillment. She is also the owner of El Refugio, an up and coming coveted wellness retreat destination in the beautiful Okanagan, B.C, Canada.
Kirby Criddle
Kirby Criddle is a teacher, writer, trauma integration specialist, intimacy educator and hands-on, hands-in integrative pelvic care provider, in service to the mystical and physical forces that bring your highest Self through to this world. Using an intuitive combination of coaching, energy work, meditation, breath, nature and plant medicine, and pelvic floor body work, she supports people with trauma integration, nervous system regulation, and the exploration of the intersection of sexuality and spirituality. Kirby has been working 1:1 with clients for 18 years, teaching for 17, and is the co-founder of GreatFull, a multi-tradition spiritual practice and wellness centre, and the founder of MOONHOUSE Women's Healing Arts. She lives in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan with her 5 kids, hot husband, and super cute cat.
Shane Robins
Movement is everything to Shane and she hopes to be an independent centenarian because of it. She is passionate about helping bodies find how to move again; through recovery, through emotional walls, even fear. She loves seeing people find strength, love and appreciation for their bodies through movement. Shane has been teaching various modalities of moving for over 25 years. This includes different styles of Yoga, Mat Pilates and now Inside Flow (new to Canada). She lives just outside Erickson, Manitoba with her husband and son. She works for Riding Mountain National Park in promotions and marketing. Find her class schedules and locations on facebook: Move with Shane and
Instagram: @ShaneDRobins.
Stacy Klassen
Stacy Klassen is a highly intuitive tarot card reader, bravery & shadowork coach, Sacred Dance teacher, and fire dance performing artist, specializing in dark goddess, ritual theater that enlightens as well as entertains.
Demetra Penner
Demetra is an artist of Spirit and From wild spaces and magic places, Demetra calls on the earth elements, the cosmos, the angelic realms, and her inner world to weave a tapestry of etheric melodies that touch something beyond human experience.
Her soothing, soulful songs and plant potions are infused with the myriad, mystical wonders of nature and spirit.
Danielle Caners
Danielle Caners is the pilot of a magnificent space shuttle bringing you on a journey to the depths of the earth, far into the cosmos and back to the core of your being. Her art is the synthesis of an untameable thirst to learn, create, and grow. Her paintings are tapestries of visual codes that reward viewers with new discoveries every time they are revisited - each one embedded with ancestral wisdom, wonder of nature and practical observations of what it is to live a fulfilled life. Danielle’s global reputation is a testament to the power of what she brings. She stands at the fulcrum of art, education and healing; guiding us to self-actualization.
Specializing in drawing and painting, Caners has grown into an inspirational speaker, giving workshops and producing books, videos and beyond. Danielle’s artistic skills continue to adapt and expand into traditional painting methods, digital art, augmented reality and alternative means of story telling.
The many projects she’s contributed to include Myco Wisdom, an art and education project introducing people into the world of fungi, Prosthetic Reality, the first Augmented Reality art book (featured in VICE news and CNET), mural commissions and curating The Antipodes Project with over thirty international contributors (featured in Juxtapoz and White Hot magazines). Her art has shown in four continents and is collected around the world.
Alison Ritchie
Alison is a Traditional Birth & Postpartum Care Practitioner, an Herbalist, a Mother, a Women's Health Enthusiast, with many interests that include the Healing Arts, regenerative gardening, cooking beautiful healing food, growing and preparing herbal medicines, reading, and so much more. She has 16 years experience in the birth realm and has been growing, studying, and practicing herbal medicine for the past 12 years. Alison lives north of Winnipeg on her acreage with her 2 kids, husband, and beloved animals.
Mariah Mailman
When we allow the breath to breathe us, we enter a trance in which we know the truth of who we are. Mariah Mailman is a Winnipeg based kundalini yoga instructor. She's known for guiding us inward to listen to our own wisdom through energizing sessions that include yoga asanas, mantras, mudras, bandhas, and breath work. Kundalini yoga is a practice for releasing any programming, identities, and masks, and harmonizing with a more authentic experience of expressing our truest selves. We are the technology and kundalini yoga a manual for quickly awakening our potency. Join Mariah for a guided session celebrating the joy that we already are.
Corey Lakusiak
Corey is a truth seeker and child of God, who aims to live a joy-filled life. For 20-years, she has been teaching students of all ages and abilities how to move with greater ease, freedom, confidence, and strength.
Corey's teaching style is grounded + clear. She is known for using simple alignment cues and colourful visualizations, which helps students to get out of their heads and into their bodies.
And, I'm so stoked to share my gifts with the RAW community.
Carla Jans
Carla is a Women’s Healing Guide and Akashic Records Reader helping women to find their home within. She specializes in assisting women to overcome their fears, deep energies, and emotions to reclaim their divine feminine power and emerge embodying the magic of who they truly are.
As she explored deeper within herself, she uncovered the healing potential of sacred waters through her Akashic Journeys and connection with her Sirian star family. Her teachings now emphasize the practical and profound impact of water's healing properties, guiding others to experience and integrate this sacred knowledge.
Indira
I am a dreamer, a healer, an explorer, and a visionary. Over the past 30 years, I’ve been on a journey of healing and self-discovery. My travels to Guatemala, Thailand, and India exposed me to new ways of thinking and being. I’ve meditated in Ashrams and Forest Wats where I was given the question and found the answer to “Who Am I”.
After obtaining my degree in Psychology, I found my path in the Tantra of Tibetan Buddhism, which I consider to be the most profound mind technology to date. Drawn to its imagery and techniques, the practice has deepened my understanding of our human psyche and reality.
As a dedicated Registered Massage Therapist and Movement Educator (The Feldenkrais Method), I specialize in working with the nervous system to release self-limiting habits and to improve self awareness. With a passion for supporting women and sisterhood, I have led advent meditation sessions, full moon gatherings, women’s circles, and participated in women’s earth-based building projects.
Inspired by nature and all of life, I thrive on bringing people together, fostering connection, and serving others. A natural blossoming of my love and commitment to personal and collective empowerment has led me to creating a healing and retreat center called The Chrysalis Center for Transformation. A place where art and beauty meet functional systems to support our blossoming.
I look forward to sharing a divine feminine activation with you. May we rise together in love, strength, and joy to usher in a harmonious and enlightened future!
I am honoured and excited to be sharing a Green Tara (The Swift Saviouress) Activation at the 2024 RAW Gathering.
Marlies Soltys
Fully immersed in the art world, with a major influence on personal wellness, mindfulness and play. An artist who keeps a plethora of various art mediums at her side. Letting intuition guide her creations, and curiosity push the boundaries of both the mediums used and original concepts in mind. Marlies offers and facilitates art workshops and classes for groups of all sizes both in her studio (Inspire Art Studio, Minnedosa) and various functions. An avid lover of nature, Marlies finds solace and inspiration in amongst the trees, water and everything in between. These offer her inspiration, rejuvenation and keep her grounded.
Marlies also explores personal wellness, mindfulness and the importance of creativity and play (with art supplies!). Holding a diploma in Applied Counselling, Marlies has learnt the importance of staying present, worked through personal challenges and realized just how much art helped her grow, heal, and release.
Together with Kim Burgess, Marlies co-facilitated Off The Grid Retreats for women just outside of Minnedosa for over 5 years, focusing on an unplugged weekend of wellness immersed in nature, sharing, mindfulness and creation.
Kim Burgess
Kim Burgess is an educator, family oriented female, and a counselling psychotherapist specializing in Expressive Arts Therapies incorporating art, music, eco, and play modalities. Her professional work is centered around her rural Manitoba private practice, Satori Counselling.
Vast international and local training & experiences have shaped her unique approach to counselling & therapy work with youth, adults and families. Harmoniously, Kim has spent her lifetime immersed in the joy & essence of country living – including hosting off grid women’s retreats where forest bathing, earthing, and the ancient archetype walking labyrinth meditation were incorporated into the nature-based experience.
Kim will be co-facilitating a guided walking labyrinth symbolizing the ebb and flow of our life’s path activating the right brain to serve as a guide to deeper meaning and fulfillment. Metaphorically the labyrinth represents a spiritual personal journey into self (center) with a transformed return to the world around us.
Richel Brousseau
I am a visionary + counsel for those looking to discover their internal alchemist to return home to themselves. Through healing pillars of introspection, acknowledgement, vulnerability & discernment we can remember that we are the medicine. As a trauma release + bodywork practitioner I work within individual and collective spaces to guide you as you alchemize your unearthing into soul medicine. Reverently utilizing practices of shamanic practice, dream journeying, dowsing protocols & integrative somatic bodywork to unravel the threads of illusion, trauma & programming that are keeping you from your authentic self. Guiding you back home to your body.
Tara Bauer
Tara is a conscious dance and movement student practitioner. Offering a facilitated movement journey, designed to awaken the soul's joy of moving and being in a body and celebrating this beautiful magic with each other. I hope you'll join me.
Meet the Artists
jANiCKA
jANiCKA is a genre blending artist/producer/dancer & DJ, who speaks to the soul for personal power and embodiment. Her music lives in the ears and hearts of people yearning for something unique, healing, creatively stimulating and mentally sustainable.
jANiCKA is known for creating atmospheres where the soul can emerge, the inner child can play, and the everyday humanness of our experience can be expressed freely, and courageously!
She serves as a facilitator, hosting experiences for others to connect with their voices, their primal nature, embody their uniqueness, and be witnessed for who they truly are.
After a long year away, she's looking forward to returning to the studio, as a fuller, braver, clearer version of her self to put her first full length album together.
[Eskotey] aka Rice Lander
We are Mothers of the Earth . The tails of essence . Floating liquid connections . Flow . Surround . a hugging caress . oh ways of Ancient yester-morrows alive with Peace . Shifting Sands . Upon foundations STRONG . Rocks " We Stand " . Songs entwined with threads of children's laughter . Echo's of smiles that bring waves to shore . Can you see this sea . ?. Unwind Sweet Time and Release what hands made without consent . Open spaces now fill with Creators Love . oya manask . kisi manitow . and so it is . Waves words cannot capture . we dance the stary trails . Safety looses soul to walk among us . Path lit . Ancestor's steps fit warm . Shine brightly . Tread so eons lift . Shifting minds . Open Hearts . Eyes wide shut We Feel you . Lights that speak . We hear you . Finite is their vision . Not ours . Vast is True Eternity .
Love Eskotey, the spirit of Rice
Jess Rae
You may recognize Jess Rae from the Western Canadian Music Award Winning band Sweet Alibi. Jess Rae, though newly starting to make appearances under her solo moniker, has warmed up the stage for Ron Sexsmith, Slow Leaves, and is beginning to make appearances on festival stages, and venues throughout Canada.
Jess finds a way to flawlessly blend a contemplative roots sound with elements of pop, letting her soulful expressive voice and honest songwriting do most of the heavy lifting. Jess’ voice is often compared to Norah Jones, Feist and Amy Winehouse. Jess takes everything life gives her and puts it into her songs. People are often drawn into her sincere lyrics and soulful/roots sound. She always looking forward to sharing the love of music with the next audience.
Jess is currently developing songs for a debut Album, to be released in 2024.
Elder Bev Jones
Bev is a retired social worker having graduated with a BSW from the U o f M in 1989. She worked front line for 33 years with our Aboriginal people including: women, men, street youth, youth, children and families, in various professional roles as a counsellor, therapist and as a substitute teacher.
She has worked with addictions, HIV/AIDS, has been a mandated worker for CFS and has also worked with homelessness. She has worked in both Aboriginal and non Aboriginal agencies, in Manitoba and Vancouver BC.
Bev developed and operated a 16 week program in Ottawa, Ontario for women who were wanting to deal with their unresolved abuse issues. She is also a Survivor of sexual abuse, a recovering alcoholic (39 years no alcohol) and is part of intergenerational trauma and genocide due to her cultural identity as an " Indian" as defined under the Canadian Indian Act Policy.
She has hosted Waterwalks at Clear Lake in the spring for the last 11 years. She has sat on various boards on both Provincial and National scale. She currently works with a Humanitarian group on an International level. Bev is a co-producer and owns copyrights to a documentary called: Policy Baby; The Journey of Ritabev, based on her life experiences.
Bev was an adoptee raised Caucasian and was without her cultural identity for many years. Her healing was guided by Spirit in cultural and traditional ceremonies as her 1st NDE (near death experience) happened at the young age of five and her second was at the age of 24.
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Denadra Dey
Mother, Dream Weaver, Soul Tender, and Songstress Deandra Dey’s mission is to bring us more fully into ourselves, our bodies, our love, and our ability to be with the complexities of being human. Deandra’s unique gift lies in her ability to call in a variety of songs and melodies that speak to our times and our hearts. Deandra’s music encompasses everything from circle songs to groovy folk-soul rhythms that inspire movement, focusing on themes of spiritual and personal evolution, expression, and connection. Whether she is facilitating a vocal sound healing session, sharing intimate songs and stories, or grooving with a band, Deandra cultivates a sense of ceremony and community amongst her audience. Check out Deandra Dey's Spotify to listen to what she has been up to!
Rachel Starbloom
Rachel Starbloom is a multi-faceted Artist, expressive arts guide, elemental intuitive and devotional creatress. Rachel grew up in the rural forest landscape of the Manitoba prairies and is keen on sharing the love and vast gifts of the animistic world that she’s synergistically cultivated throughout many years of practice. Weaving spirit and matter through co-creation inspires her, be it through various nature based art, earth altars, musical connectivity, and sound healing. Rachel believes in the power of coming together to rise as pillars of wakefulness - conspirators of joy and beauty, unified in heart and purpose! Join Starbloom to engage in playful flower blessings as well as create a culminating earth altar {(mandala)} together.
Sheena Legarnd
There’s a special moment when the breath meets the heartbeat, and time stands still. The pull to move with the music emerges, and hesitancy falls away. Sheena Legrand channels this in “Back To Life” - her latest offering to the world since 3 full length albums as Sheena Grobb.
Listening to her music, there is a comfort, a familiarity, a remembering who we are. Expect this WCMA-nominated indie-folk/pop songwriter, originally from Treherne, MB, to serve us a generous helping of sweet melodic hooks, intricate keys, and delicately layered vocals reminiscent of her earlier work, with an electrifying live loop experience that will be sure to get your body moving.
Sheena’s songwriting reflects the inner strength, playfulness, and electricity that exists when standing on the edge of our infinite potential. Her audiences live happily on that edge with her where the journey really begins.
